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...through the Bear River Valley of southwestern Wyoming in the 1840s, they found oil flowing into streams and used it to grease the axles of their wagons. But it was not until 1974, when a deep pool of oil was tapped at Pineview Field outside the small town of Evanston, that the rush began...
...estimated $250 million has been spent on exploration and drilling around Evanston. Amoco and Chevron are spending a total of $700,000 to build two gas processing plants. "We'll be here years from now and still growing," says Garret Eckerdt, an engineer for Chevron. "We haven't even found the edges of the thing...
Though road signs outside Evanston still proclaim a population of 4,462, that figure has surely doubled since 1975; it will probably top 15,000 by 1985. Everything in Evanston is booming, partly because many roustabouts make $1,000 or more a week. Business is up 20% at J.C. Penney's, and it would be more than double that if the store had more space. It hopes to move to the new shopping center now being planned, the town's first. Neon lights blink NO VACANCY outside motels charging $35 a night, cash in advance. "Tourists...
...antiwar protesters sprayed chicken blood over ROTC classrooms at the City College of New York. A year later, vandals trashed the Navy ROTC building at Northwestern in Evanston, Ill., forcing the program to move under Dyche Stadium. Throughout the U.S., armed forces instructors took to wearing civilian clothes when they walked on campus. Recalls one: "There was no sense in being harassed...
...more imaginative home-seeker, those aren't the only ways to be happily (and cheaply) housed. A funeral home in Evanston, Illinois, provides a student with living quarters in exchange for answering the telephone at night and occasionally acting as the home's representative at wakes...